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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Beyond the Movie

In addition to featuring extended scenes, the Episode III game also includes segments based on scenes that were deleted from the theatrical cut of the film (but will no doubt eventually appear on the Episode III DVD). Here's what you won't be seeing on the big screen:

Mission 2: Obi-Wan and Anakin face off against some enemy droids and escape from a flooding generator room. Caution: you will get wet!

Mission 6: General Grievous may be one super-strong bad guy, but he still feels the need to employ a mess of bodyguards. In the movie, Obi-Wan and Anakin face off against these robotic guards aboard a spaceship, but in the game, you'll have to fight the guards as the ship turns upside down.

Mission 11: Before he faces Cin Drallig in the game, Anakin slices his way through various other Jedi Knights within the Jedi Temple. This scene is edited in the movie, so the game gives an even deeper look into the events that lead Anakin down his dark path.

Cracks on the floor of a glass bottom spaceship can't be a good thing.

An Expanded Universe

In addition to these addition scenes, there are some completely new goodies that were created specifically for the game. In the Jedi Temple, Anakin faces off against new classes of Jedi (in addition to Knights and Masters) like Jedi Brutes and Jedi Snipers (we're still trying to figure out how a Jedi snipes you with a lightsaber). There are also new battle droids like the Air Battle Droids and Grapple Droids. The Army of the Republic has been enhanced with new clone troopers like the Clone Heavy Gunners, Clone Assassins, and the airborne Clone Blaze Troopers (who attack with flamethrowers). Even though he's a new character, Cin Drallig already has a padawan apprentice, Serra Keto, who Anakin must defeat before facing Cin.

Sounds pretty cool, right? There are enough extra goodies here to get any Star Wars fan pumped for the game's upcoming release. But LucasArts has one more twisted treat in store. After beating the game, you're given the opportunity to replay the final, climatic battle between Obi-Wan and his fallen apprentice, Anakin. Normally, you would control Obi-Wan here (since he is the "good" guy), but during this replay, you get to play as the Emperor's new best pal.

Defeat Obi-Wan, and you get to see an alternate ending that turns the entire Star Wars universe upside down. Does Anakin not have to don his infamous black armor and telltale breathing apparatus? Does he finally convince his son, Luke, to join him in ruling the galaxy? Does Lobot end up destroying the Death Star and becoming the hero he deserves to be? This is another point that LucasArts is keeping quiet about, so we can only speculate as to this mysterious alternate ending. We can't wait to find out.